Name: How to Kill Your Family
Rating: 3.404527559055118 (254 reviews)
ISBN: 9780008365912

Bella Mackie

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How to Kill Your Family

Josephine Cammarano

The amount of small talk involved depletes my energy and makes my whole body tense up. Not because I'm shy, but because it's so boring it makes me want to die. Life is so short, and we spend so much of it talking to terrible people about the minutiae of their nothing lives. I cannot do it with any enthusiasm.

Such a crazy and fun title and premise. With unfortunately, a boring execution.

Tali ⋆.˚🦋༘⋆

Thoroughly enjoyed however I wish the ending had been a bit different. Found the author to be humorous and found pleasure in the writing style. 

Tricia K

I finally went back and finished this. It was ok, an interesting idea just a bit one note in delivery and faded away towards the end.

Emma Cragg

mimansa 

Don't want to start rambling and go off track about the book but the Author clearly does so. After the first two chapters you realize the plot of the story and continue to read so as to know it in a detailed manner. But to want to know the whys, hows and wheres in this story, the readers have to go through a jungle of unwanted obsrvations and irrelevant information. At a point, the wheres and hows weren't even worth reading through the long unwanted chapters. 
Overall, the plot of the story is intriguing, but the writing really put me off ://

Interesting plot, pretty dark, but was kind of disappointed by the ending. The first 3/4 of the book from Grace’s perspective were pretty good, but the ending was kinda meh. Not bad, but could’ve ended in a more thrilling manner.

Erin Goss

Ziggy

u wanna be light yagami with an essay due in 2 hours so bad.. dont piss me off

The title of the book was the main thing that drew me to reading this book it’s very British and there’s a lot of long chapters which I’m not necessarily a fan of but the plot was good I feel like then end bit where her brother sends her an email where he knows and has witnessed all her murders was very unexpected.

Hana 

short review: 

bizarre, grating, and violently british. i can't tell if the ending makes up for it or makes it worse.

long review: 

it had such an interesting premise, but the narrative style was grating. not necessarily the views of the fmc, because good for her honestly, but the diction and sentence structure were truly abominable. and the fact that the fmc presented herself as a woman's rights activist but spent the entire book harassing women without analyzing their choices in the context of a patriarchal society. this would perhaps make sense as satire of the self-absorption of white feminism, but the author is apparently both white and a part of british peerage, so take from that what you will. also, the fmc was presented as an intelligent, competent woman and killer to boot, so the entire idea of her putting her confession on paper is utterly ridiculous, made more so by her being bested by a man at the end. i will, however, say it was quite funny at times.

2½ stars

A promising storyline and concept but VERY long chapters. I cannot deal with long chapters (that might just be personally but I found myself flicking forward multiple times to see how many pages were left). Some good moments and interesting characters but pretty bad ending… Maybe pick it up if you are a fast reader but for someone like me who takes a while it was sometimes a chore.

George McCartney

Bilge Ince

Dark, humorous and witty. All I need for this October.

Grace is an inmate in the Limehouse prison for a murder she didn’t commit. But was she really innocent? Yes, for this alleged murder, but no for many others. And this is the story of why and how…

 How awful it must be to know in your bones that those around you were being picked off one by one and to realise that you must therefore be next. Even worse, it seemed like nobody was listening to him – a terrible thing for a powerful white man to experience.

I feel like this took me a while to read this book and the start was very slow. However the ending was good and has left me feeling confused lol so overall 3.5/5

Marcie Allen

3.5⭐️

I feel like this took me a while to read this book and the start was very slow. However the ending was good and has left me feeling confused lol so overall 3.5/5

Emmm :p

SO FUNNY. it takes bloody ages to get through because Grace feels the need to state and express every single thought she has and it really made me struggle. i read it on a plane from Corfu to Exeter and I still didn’t finish. i continued on a train from Bath to Exeter (and back) and still didn’t finish. it is LONG but it is fun!! i would like to see it as a tv series

A Novel

Not my cup of tea. Honestly Grace is ultimatly so unlikeable. She's so fixated on getting her vengeance and so immersed that I just could not stand her. And also, I'm so disgusting by how she murder's people who in my moral view just do not deserve it, and how she debates murdering completely innocent people just make me think what the hell. I really do not think this book was what I was expecting, I wanted better and it was such a let down especially because people have really enjoyed this book. 

I think this book would however be liked by people who are getting into reading, beginners, people who haven't read alot of books. They won't have any expectations or ideas of how a books plot should be structured or anything, so they would go into this book completely blind, and can then have an unbiased view of this book. 

The reason why I gave it 2 stars is because I do respect the whole idea Bella Mackie has, and i respect the beginning of this book and the ending, i feell like they are very hugely influential to this rating.

surtified™

Not my cup of tea. Honestly Grace is ultimatly so unlikeable. She's so fixated on getting her vengeance and so immersed that I just could not stand her. And also, I'm so disgusting by how she murder's people who in my moral view just do not deserve it, and how she debates murdering completely innocent people just make me think what the hell. I really do not think this book was what I was expecting, I wanted better and it was such a let down especially because people have really enjoyed this book. 

I think this book would however be liked by people who are getting into reading, beginners, people who haven't read alot of books. They won't have any expectations or ideas of how a books plot should be structured or anything, so they would go into this book completely blind, and can then have an unbiased view of this book. 

The reason why I gave it 2 stars is because I do respect the whole idea Bella Mackie has, and i respect the beginning of this book and the ending, i feell like they are very hugely influential to this rating.

Apiecalypse Jen

Joana da Silva

I HATE writing bad reviews but this book.......... Stay away from it. Save your money, your e-reader space, everything. It promised everything and gave me nothing but despair and an extreme loss of time.

How to Kill Your Family

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